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Marion, What's Your New Year's Eve Resolution?

We asked some folks around town their New Year's resolution for 2012.

 

Whether you desire a promotion, to set more time aside for the family, to do something you have always been afraid of, or lose a couple pounds, most everyone wants something in their life to be different. 

So, for some reason, we Americans have adopted the tradition of doing something about it on the first day of the new year. We call it, New Year's resolutions.

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Here's some from folks around town.

Doug Raber, Director, 

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  • I want to do a better job at sorting out the important from the unimportant, and letting the latter slide by. When I was young, life seemed endless, or if I thought about an end it was an abstraction. That kind of thinking has some advantages.  It lets you try anything. If it’s a dead end, it doesn’t matter. You’ve got time to try something else. Now it doesn’t feel like I have so much time as I thought I had.  It’s time to stop worrying about unimportant things, and savoring the important ones. Because I’m also increasingly convinced that the really important things in life aren’t about power or money or things, but about things whose value we tend not to notice until they aren’t around.

Steve Sprague, former Marion City Council member.

  • I resolve to finish more, start less and clear away the excess. If you saw my self imposed honey do list you'd understand.

Gae Sharp-Richardson, owner,

  • My new years resolution is to surround myself with  the goodness of uptownMarion whenever I can. :o) Not just in my work, but to shop, eat, drink and be Marion every day. To think positive and share the goodness.

Christoph Trappe, Marion resident and manager of marketing and communications of United Way.

  • In 2012, I'm looking forward to sharing United Way's message in new and exciting ways. 

Scott Raynor, Marion resident and local editor for Marion Patch.

  • Acceptance. When I see maturity in a person it's a quality that manifests itself in how they respond to problems. That's the boss, teacher, or family member you go to, head in hands after failing them in some way, who shows no disappointment. When any problem hits, they accept, propose a solution and go on with their life. I want to be more like that.

Finally, there is something to be said for those that accept the difficulty in making sweeping changes to themselves.

When I emailed Dan Whitlow, the city engineer for Marion, he sent me back this brief response.

"Thanks for asking Scott but I gave those up years ago. ;)."

Let us know your New Year's resolutions. Email me at scott.raynor@patch.com. Resolutions will be posted on our Facebook page. If enough of you respond, we'll post it as a story.


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